Senior Google Cloud Engineer

Job Overview 

The Senior Google Cloud Engineer will play a strategic and hands-on role in helping customers establish strong cloud foundations on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), modernise existing applications, and accelerate adoption of cloud-native engineering practices. 

This role combines deep technical engineering capability with architecture guidance, advisory responsibilities, and platform enablement. The successful candidate will work closely with cloud, data, software engineering, and customer teams to design scalable, secure, resilient, and operationally mature cloud environments. 

The role requires strong experience in Terraform and Infrastructure as Code, modern application architectures, Kubernetes and container platforms, cloud-native development patterns, and enterprise cloud governance. The engineer will guide teams on best practices related to platform engineering, automation, operational excellence, security, observability, and modern software delivery. 

This individual will collaborate closely with Synthesis Cloud, Data, and Code teams to ensure solutions are aligned to engineering standards, architectural best practices, and long-term scalability objectives. The role also includes advising customers and internal teams on modernisation strategies, application transformation approaches, and the adoption of cloud-native services and patterns. 

Responsibilities 

• Design, build, and support secure and scalable Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environments. 
• Establish and maintain cloud foundations, landing zones, and governance standards. 
• Guide customers and internal teams on cloud-native development and application modernisation. 
• Advise engineering teams on best practices related to architecture, automation, scalability, security, reliability, and operational excellence. 
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform. 
• Support Kubernetes and container-based platforms and deployments. 
• Collaborate closely with Cloud, Data, and Code teams across customer engagements. 
• Assist with architecture reviews, technical solutioning, and implementation
  guidance. 
• Contribute to CI/CD automation, observability, monitoring, and platform engineering
  practices. 

• 5+ years of cloud engineering or platform engineering experience.
  
• Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
  
• Experience designing and implementing cloud foundations and enterprise cloud
  environments.
  
• Strong Terraform and Infrastructure as Code experience.
  
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and container platforms.
  
• Experience modernising applications and enabling cloud-native development
  practices.
  
• Strong understanding of networking, IAM, cloud security, monitoring, and
  operational best practices.
  
• Experience working in customer-facing or consulting environments.
  
• Ability to guide architecture discussions and technical decision-making.
  

Advantageous: 

• Multi-cloud experience across AWS and/or Azure.
  
• Experience with platform engineering and SRE practices.
  
• Experience with CI/CD tooling and GitOps practices.
  
• Experience with data platforms, analytics, or AI/ML workloads.
  
• Google Cloud certifications.
  
• Kubernetes certifications (CKA / CKAD).
  
• Experience in financial services or enterprise environments.
  
• Experience with observability tooling such as Grafana, Prometheus, or Datadog. 

Soft Skills & Working Style:

• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Comfortable working across technical and non-technical teams.
  
• Proactive and solution-oriented mindset.
  
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving capability.
  
• Ability to mentor and uplift engineering teams.
  
• Comfortable operating in fast-paced and evolving customer environments.
  
• Strong sense of ownership, accountability, and engineering quality.
  
• Collaborative working style with a focus on enablement and knowledge sharing.

• Full-time senior engineering role.
• Works closely with Synthesis Cloud, Data, and Code teams.
• Customer-facing role with advisory and implementation responsibilities.
• Hybrid working model with flexibility based on customer and project requirements.
• Opportunity to work on enterprise cloud modernisation and transformation initiatives.